Apache virtual host on a specific directory - zend-framework

Question

I need my site to have a virtual host on a specific directory for my zend application. When user enters www.example.com it should go to normal document root but when user navigates to www.example.com/cms it should go to /var/www/cms/public which its .htaccess file is like this:
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
On localhost I added this lines to /etc/apache/httpd-vhosts.conf:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/cms/public"
ServerName persian_literature
# This should be omitted in the production environment
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development
<Directory "/var/www/cms/public">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now http://localhost/ goes to /var/www/cms/public and every thing works. My question is how should I change change above code, to force http://localhost/ to be the normal directory root (so I could use other applications) and http://localhost/cms to be the virtual host?

Answer 1

A virtual host is done at the hostname/domainname level, not at a directory level. You can use an alias to point the URI /cms to some other directory on your server by putting
Alias /cms /var/www/cms/public
in a .conf file (this will not work in .htaccess)

Answer 2

Maybe a symlink (symbolic link)? You still should have the entry of course. And you'll have to put in the config (vhost config I think, maybe .htaccess) that apache should follow the symlink.